There's no such thing as self-hosted serverless

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Claim: true serverless depends on handing server responsibility to a vendor, not on running a specific tool like Kubernetes. Examples: AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions and long‑standing S3 show serverless needs a managed execution environment and forces code into stateless packages that vendors scale. Attempts to self‑host recreate overlaps between dev and ops, require waking platform teams, and break the scaling guarantees; the result looks like serverless but loses the operational contract that makes it work.

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